Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 11:32 EDT
From: ESC@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Eric S. Crawley)
If the only path to the Sun over TCP-FTP, you will not be able to use it
for system distribution. TCP-FTP does not provide a reliable way to
obtain file properties such as length.
Why not? Here's a line from (:parse-directory-response unix-tcp-ftp-file-access-path):
(add-property :length-in-bytes (parse-number (pop tokens) 0 nil 10 t))
barmar